Are you worthy enough for the monster club?!

You don't need to pass the monster test to see "The Monster Squad" (playing with "Hocus Pocus" tomorrow night), you  just need a ticket to Blue Starlite this Saturday.  

My name is not Frank, but I'm going to be it by saying there are definitely similarities between 
“The Monster Squad” (1987) and "The Goonies,"(1985),   and some aren't subtle either; one of the most obvious is an adorable, deformed Sloth replaced by an adorable, deformed Frankenstein, and both chubby Horace and Chunk love their candy bars.

Now, I'm going to be all Frankenstein and  moan in frustration because "The Monster Squad" can  be misunderstood.  
My youngster self was happily aware of the similarities between the two films while first watching  "The Monster Squad" trailer. 
I didn't  care about the negativity of that fact then, and I don't care about it enough now to not still adore "The Monster Squad."

 [Insert angry Frankenstein moan here] Not rip off!

"The Monster Squad" is an entertaining tale of movie-monster-loving kids who make it their mission to stop the real Count  Dracula and his  band of other classic monsters from taking over their whole town, if not the  world. Mikey and his friends only saved his house from being foreclosed, so take that you goonies!

Like everyone else, I will always love  "The Goonies," but "The Monster Squad" is its underdog ally, and it  deserves as much love.

With that in mind, here is a list of my top 5 reasons you should see "The Monster Squad" again or for the first time.

1. The fact that lying about your virginity will only make things worse.

2. This shirt!

3. This still impressive werewolf transformation.

4. It was directed by underdog horror comedy maestro Fred Dekker  who previously directed "Night of Creeps,"  and conceived the story for the  film "House."

 

 5.Tom Noonan's  nothing but sweet version of Frankenstein.